The Cyclones spent Mother's Day sweeping, unfortunately for their moms it was not at home. It took a lot of hard work and an inspired effort on Sunday afternoon but the Cyclones managed to sweep the weekend series with the Manhasset Stars by scores of 2-0 and 3-2.
Saturday's game featured what was likely the fastest goal to start a game in Cyclone history as Marissa was the beneficiary of an excellent corner kick from Anna L and tapped in her 5th career goal. The Cyclones continually dominated the game, but had to wait for the closing minutes before Jenna put the game away with her 2nd goal in three games.
Sunday started out much like saturday with Cyclones getting an early lead. The build up to the first goal was a thing of beauty as Anna L, switched the field from the left side to the right from about 30 yards out, Maureen took Anna's pass and made a perfect feed to Jordan on the wing, Jordan cut through 2 Manahasset defenders and found Jenna open in front for the one timer from 7 yards out. At that point the suddenly prolifc midfielder had sole posession of the Cyclones scoring lead for the spring.
The Stars battled hard and just before halftime, brokethrough to take a 2-1 lead.
After hearing it from the coaching staff the Cyclones came out on fire in the second half. All 16 Cyclones battled hard as they started dominating. Dana playing her best soccer of the season, fought hard for a loose ball in front of the Stars net, leading to a rebound blast from Jordan to tie the game at 2.
Dana continued to show what she could do later in the half when she looped the game winner past a helpless Stars keeper and give the Cyclones mom a reason to smile while leaving the field.
Deniz, with support from Ariel, Alexa, Sabrina, A.B. & Anna held the Stars off the board in the second half. No small feat with Lisa S out of the line up. Maureen, Lisa R, Rachel, Elena and Kathleen put up a real battle to keep the ball deep in the Manhasset side of the field in the final minutes. Marissa & Jamie had a strong game on offense breaking down the Stars defense.
No comments:
Post a Comment